Campaign Quotes

“Beauty is the PR campaign of the soul.”

— Alex Shakar

I am suspending my presidential campaign.

— Herman Cain

You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose.

— Mario Cuomo

It starts with campaign finance reform.

— Zack Space

I was a campaign widow.

— Laura Moser

When I am the candidate, I run the campaign.

— Richard M. Nixon

I will not campaign for any party.

— Akkineni Nagarjuna

Our campaign is the opposite of 'competence.'

— William J. Clinton

We're not going to let our campaign be dictated by fact checkers.

— Mitt Romney

You know, I thought that this whole campaign had really toughened me up.

— Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya

Just because you can win a campaign doesn't always mean you should run a campaign.

— Laphonza Butler

Your campaign shouldn't just die the day you spend your last cent.

— David Droga

I'm running against a woman who's got David Axelrod and Rahm Emanuel running her campaign.

— Joe Walsh

You don't want to destroy the energy that comes out of a campaign.

— Donna Shalala

I am a bit biased. I co-chair the campaign effort of George W. Bush.

— Katherine Harris

I didn't go on a campaign of developers asking, 'Please give me money.'

— Enda Kenny

You have to try to build support around causes. It is uniting to campaign on a single issue, and it is never…

— Tony Benn

Today, for the first time - and the Obama campaign showed us this - we can go from the digital world, from…

— Carlo Ratti

Back during the campaign, there were a lot of questions: Is Trump really a conservative? A lot of questions about it.

— Mitch McConnell

Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich, by promising to protect each…

— Anonymous

Obama ran a hard-edged and negative campaign against Romney, hoping to convince recession-weary voters that his rival was unworthy of the job.

— Ron Fournier

Ann Romney has been front-and-center. She's held a lot of town halls, a lot of campaign rallies, on her own, separate from…

— Monica Crowley

The key to running a campaign on the cheap is to avoid spending money on anything other than projecting a message.

— Dick Morris

I talked to Reagan for about six hours all told. and Reagan was willing to go along with it. He didn't look…

— Robert Scheer

Campaign finance and ethics reform only works if it curtails all special interest groups equally and does not carve out any exceptions…

— Thomas Kean, Jr

During the 2008 presidential campaign, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid marveled at the electability of Barack Obama because, unlike previous black candidates,…

— Monica Crowley

The consequences of President Johnson's campaign of deliberate deception regarding Vietnam could hardly have been more catastrophic for the nation, the military,…

— Eric Alterman

I just think the most important aspect in being able to have a productive relationship between the teachers' unions and the districts…

— Mitt Romney

I think Michelle Obama is on the right track with her Let's Move campaign to bring down childhood obesity. She and I…

— Aaron Schock

I don't care what party you belong to or what your background is. If you believe we are headed in the wrong…

— Anonymous

I think during a campaign it's perfectly OK to do what you need to do. But then the idea, I would argue…

— Michael Capuano

The Wonderful pistachios campaign is a great example - I don't involve myself with a project I don't feel passionate about. I…

— John Cena

“If your party serves the powerful and well-funded interests, and there's no limit to what you can spend, you have a permanent,…

— David Axelrod

I will never forget who this victory truly belongs to. It belongs to you. It belongs to you. I was never the…

— Barack Obama

“Many professionals have to sign gagging clauses or face the sack if they speak out. The social worker and therapist was familiar…

— Beatrix Campbell

“What Obama was up against was a new form of permanent campaign. It was waged not by politicians but by people whose…

— Jane Mayer

“told his supporters that the campaign had “pushed this country in the direction of peace,” adding, “If we pushed the day of…

— Scott Farris

We now live in an era of the permanent campaign - all marketing and messaging all the time. We clearly live in…

— Jeffrey Pfeffer

The best benefit that blogs can provide a campaign is actually to build buzz. It provides earned media for the candidates the…

— Markos Moulitsas

If I were advising President Obama, since he's the one running, I would have made his campaign very simple. I promise that…

— Thomas Friedman